Liz Kendall
I have got a vintage Omega 1949 watch I love... It was a present that I got for my birthday.Collection: Birthday
The Labour party is the greatest champion of equality and opportunity this country has even known.Collection: Equality
Winning is not selling your soul. Winning is not betrayal. Winning is the means of applying your principles.
Effective stewardship of the public finances has to be at the heart of everything we do.
The NHS needs to change fundamentally. It's a fragmented service when it should be joined-up. It's a last-minute crisis intervention service when it should be about prevention. It's a sickness service when it should have promoting health as its core. Crucially, it doesn't do enough to help people to help themselves.
People's taxes spent on servicing our national debt, instead of funding public services. This isn't just a waste - it's also a risk.
You do your best, you work hard for yourself, for your family and others.
In Finland they are brilliant at ensuring no young person falls behind. From the day a child is born they are visited by health workers who assess their well-being and developmental. The health workers work with psychologists and speech therapists and aim to identify any problems at a very early stage.
I would radically redesign early years education to learn from the best bits of the Finnish system.
Creating a more equal society means tackling the inequalities that emerge before children even start school.
Making sure there are good jobs that pay a decent wage in every part of the country means backing hi-tech companies, modern manufacturing, Britain's scientists and creative industries - not spending billions of pounds reopening coal mines or renationalising huge swaths of the economy.
Securing dignity for everyone in old age means transforming support for families who look after their elderly and disabled loved ones, and fully joining up the NHS and social care - not setting local services in aspic.
Jeremy Corbyn and his supporters do not have a monopoly on principle.
Labour was formed to be the voice of community organisers, civic leaders and workplace activists, whose fight against poverty and injustice involved organising for their values, their principles and their loved ones.
I don't think it's principled to give up on electoral victory to make ourselves feel good.
For too long, politics has been about politicians winning power to take decisions about everyone else.
My goal is to get power out of Westminster and into the hands of the people it affects. That means sharing power with those who have none and using national and local government to help people to help themselves and one another.
Labour grew out of popular movements of mutualism and self-help.
Friendly societies, educational associations and trade unions gave working people the power to shape their own lives.
We urgently need an open and honest debate with the public about what help and support they will be entitled to when they are older, and what it is reasonable for them to contribute in return.
Making sure children from all backgrounds learn about opportunities that are usually available to a few, is an inspiring vision of what our schools can be. That means ensuring there is strong leadership and great teachers, particularly in the most deprived areas.
My parents are like many across Britain. Neither on the breadline, nor loaded, they were determined to give their daughter all that any of us can ask from our parents: love, security, ambition and hope.
I well remember the pride that my parents felt when my brother and I went up to Cambridge, but I also know many friends that I grew up with - brilliant, funny, acutely intelligent girls - who never fulfilled their potential.
I want every Labour Council to lead a revolution in opening horizons for pupils and making better educational chances everyone's business.
I wish I'd known what type of learner I was as a child - I could have done better.
You fall in love with your constituency, you really do.
People are forged in the fire of their first political experience.
You can't sort out crime unless locals have a good relationship with the police. You can't tackle health challenges unless people have an active role in their own health.
When it comes to public services, I am firmly on the side of the public.
Services should revolve around those who use them and be fit for the future, not stuck in the past.
There is no point saying you believe in economic responsbility and being careful with taxpayers money if public services are a reform-free zone.
When Labour loses we do one of three things. We decide we didn't win because we weren't leftwing enough: fantasy. We decide we can avoid the really tough decisions because they are too uncomfortable: a fudge. Or we decide that winning is too important.
Leadership means saying what you believe.
I'm proud to be feminist.
There are moments in life we all remember, and I will never forget where I was on 7 July 2005 when the awful news came through that a series of bombs had gone off on the London Underground and on a London bus.
We have learned - or at least we should have - that seeing Islamist extremism purely as a reaction to what we do is fundamentally mistaken. Indeed that view - Western centric as it is - belittles the threat we face. It implies we can somehow opt out of this fight, that if we hide maybe they will leave us alone.
Those who pursue the ideology of Isil are not children - they are responsible for their own actions, driven by their own ideology.
Our values are precious: the freedom to elect or kick out a government; the freedom to worship in different places; and the freedom that allows me as a woman to wear what I want, to choose any career that I want, and to love whom I want. These values are vital. They are part of us. And they are worth defending with everything we have.
Some people think we can have everything we want without making any difficult decisions. They have forgotten what it takes to win. It is fantasy politics.
When people say, 'You don't have a family' it makes my blood boil. I thought, 'Yes I do, I have my dad, my mum, my brothers and nieces.'
I am a person who loves and wants to be loved.
As you get older, of course you want to be settled, but life changes and it doesn't work out. Who knows what will happen?
We need welfare reform to get people back to work and provide proper support for those that can't.
David Cameron should be focusing on what is in Britain's national interest and our place in the world, not on internal party politics.
I want to stand up for Britain's national interests.
Look I'm in favour of free movement of labour but not free movement of benefits; people who come here should come to work and that is extremely important that that is dealt with.
I don't want anyone to be put off going into politics - particularly women - if they feel that they're going to get personal questions.
I can't pretend to being particularly happy about Jeremy Corbyn being leader of the Labour party.
Oh, I could never leave the Labour party. I could no longer leave the Labour party than leave my own family.
Parties always win when they set out a positive and optimistic and confident vision for the future, when they have a broad appeal.